Today The European Parliament has voted by a massive majority to reject the software patents directive, formally known as the Directive on the Patentability of Computer Implemented Inventions.
The vote to scrap the bill was passed by a margin of 648 votes to 14, with 18 abstentions.
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My Mac Mini
Finally I got my Mac Mini. Today is arrived!
Now i can start testing sepy1 and sepy2 on it 🙂
OpenOffice 2
Just curious to know how many people have openoffice installed instead of MS Office..
I used the version 1.x for a while but i never like the graphic interface.
But once the beta 2 started i switched to openoffice definitively. Cool GUI and really stable framework (to me) convinced me immediately.
for a list of new features in version 2:
http://www.openoffice.org/dev_docs/features/2.0/index.html
Is CGWS becoming open-source?
Christian Giordano, a friend and one of the Flash artist I estimate a lot for his creativity, recently decided to begin to make his works sources available for download.
If you never visit his site I suggest you to see some of the examples he’s publishing on the download area.. really nice!
p.s. See you next week, i’m flying to Malaga for a little holiday 🙂
Adobe acquired Macromedia!
Adobe Systems Incorporated (Nasdaq: ADBE) has announced a definitive agreement to acquire Macromedia (Nasdaq: MACR) in an all-stock transaction valued at approximately $3.4 billion.
Under the terms of the agreement, which has been approved by both boards of directors, Macromedia stockholders will receive, at a fixed exchange ratio, 0.69 shares of Adobe common stock for every share of Macromedia common stock in a tax-free exchange.
Based on Adobe’s and Macromedia’s closing prices on Friday April 15, 2005, this represents a price of $41.86 per share of Macromedia common stock.
This is a shocking news I never wanted to read!
NeoSwiff beta
After MTASC compiler, I read today of another upcoming SWF compiler.
NeoSwiff allows developers to write Flash™ applications in C#. NeoSwiff comes with a C# to SWF compiler, and also with a Visual Studio .NET support. This is very interesting 🙂
Moreover the compiler is available for Windows/Mac OSX and Linux
Some screenshots are available here: http://www.globfx.com/products/neoswiff/screenshots.php
Internet Explorer 7.0
Today at RSA, Bill Gates talked about Internet Explorer 7.0.
It seems there will be a beta available to late this summer, for Windows XP SP2… and it seems the major things about it will be security and security (wow, maybe guys at microsoft discovered security finally?)
More info at: http://radio.weblogs.com/0001011/2005/02/15.html#a9441
EU process on software patents restarted
Since first reading of this here I have been trying to follow it. It seems a great victory was published today:
A big THANKS to alessandro for posting this important topic! 😉